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One of my favorite things about arcades is the cool money machines that they have. The ones where you step in, the door closes, and you have 30 seconds to grab as much money as you can while a fan whips the dollar bills everywhere.

When you walk in you are focused and prepared to get as many flying pieces of paper as possible. The goal is usually pretty high too. Sometimes people aim for $20, $50 or if confidence is sky high they’ll aim for $100.

A 28-year-old Roanoke man, facing five counts of computer solicitation of someone less than 15 years old and more than seven years younger than the defendant, was denied bond during a hearing last Wednesday in General District Court.
Robert Ryan Terry is scheduled for a May 14 bond hearing. He can appeal his bond request to circuit court.

To start the season the main goal for the Smith Mountain Lake Christian Academy (SMLCA) Ospreys was simple–win the VACA State Championship. Achieving that goal would be easier said than done for the Ospreys.

The basketball season officially starts in November but the Ospreys began this year’s journey much earlier. The team started to get familiar with one another in June.

By Delegate Kathy Byron
The 2018 General Assembly session ended as scheduled on Saturday. Of the 2,606 bills submitted by legislators, 874 were approved. One very important bill, the state budget, was not. Consequently, we’ll be returning to Richmond soon to approve a two-year spending plan.

The 2018 Regular Session of the General Assembly adjourned on Saturday. Consensus was achieved on several important issues in the final days of session, but bicameral agreement on the Commonwealth’s two year budget continued to prove elusive.

Work on Liberty Middle School is 80 percent complete, according to Eddie Brown, the M. B. Kahn representative overseeing the project. He expects the school to be substantially complete by July 15.

The good news, according to Donnie Lake, Kahn’s site supervisor, is that the entire school is “dried in.” This means that interior work can continue regardless of the weather.
“We won’t lose any time on account of rain,” Lake said.

Warrants were taken out by officers from the Bedford Police Department last week on Mark Hanson Elliott of Lynchburg for an incident that allegedly occurred Tuesday morning.
According to Bedford Police, at about 8:30 a.m., police responded to the 1000 block of Pinecrest Avenue for the report of a disturbance. A Lynchburg man, identified as Mark Hanson Elliott, was not at the location when officers arrived.

The last time the Jefferson Forest Cavaliers made it to the VHSL state tournament every player on this year’s team was still in diapers and head coach Cameron Shepherd was getting set to enter high school as a freshman. It has been 16 years since the Cavaliers battled Martinsville in the 2002 AA state quarterfinal.

“It really puts it into persecutive on just how long it’s been,” Shepherd said.